The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.